Frost's “Desert Places”: Inner Darkness C.K. Williams said, “poetry confronts in the most clear-eyed way just those emotions which consciousness wished to slide by,” and in “Desert Places” Robert Frost makes the reader not only visualize the cause of these emotions, but feel them also. Throughout the four stanzas of “Desert Places,” Frost describes a solitary walk through desolate snow covered woods. Each stanza describes a portion of his walk, and his inner descent into vacancy. Throughout “Desert Places,” Frost uses simple everyday images to create powerful feelings of loneliness and desolation, which in turn give the reader a mental picture of what the speaker sees and feels. Frost begins the poem with “snow falling and night falling fast, oh, fast” indicating that darkness has fallen quickly and unexpectedly upon him. As the speaker p....

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